Sidney Fussell

The model had shown promise in Flint before officials rebelled. Now Toledo is using it, while incorporating more public input.

There’s been a lot of discussion about algorithmic bias, but the focus has been on bias in historical data. We take a look at why it’s so difficult to encode fairness, and why a rising computer science star still believes we can use machine learning for social good.

At the WIRED25 event, the two investors say traditional venture capital misses opportunities because it is a monoculture.

Sociologist and author Simone Browne connects the dots between modern marketing and the branding of slaves.

Smartphones could be a powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus. But tracking people’s movements would offend many Americans’ sense of privacy.

Uber officially bans drivers from carrying firearms—but the company’s business model prevents it from enforcing such a ban. The results can be deadly.

The feature looks likely to fill gaps in care—and to further draw users into Facebook’s ecosystem.

Developers are protesting after revelations that the source-code repository GitHub contracted with ICE. But if you restrict access to open-source code, is it still open?

Apps promising to “advance” a user’s wages say they aren’t payday lenders. So what are they?

Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up.

Your Roku or Vizio device knows a whole lot about you. All that information is highly valuable for campaign advertising.

Body cameras were supposed to fix a broken system. What happened?

The border is expanding. What normal people would consider a border -- the physical and political barriers between countries, sometimes protected by walls and checkpoints -- isn’t what the US government considers a “border.” In this...

New reports suggest that drone activity at the southern border is spreading to nearby cities, erasing the line between police procedures and immigration enforcement.

New reports suggest that drone activity at the southern border is spreading to nearby cities, erasing the line between police procedures and immigration enforcement.

Google allegedly scanned volunteers with dark skin tones in order to perfect the Pixel phone’s face-unlock technology.

The world’s largest online retailer is diving headfirst into the techlash.

The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.

“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?

For protesters, claims of Chinese surveillance are politically useful, even when they can’t be proved.